State v. Severance’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Gill (1966), State v. Sidway (1981)
29 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The operator of a motor vehicle who has caused or is involved in an accident resulting in injury to any person other than the operator, or in damage to any property other than the vehicle then under his or her control shall immediately stop and render any assistance reasonably necessary. The operator shall give his or her name, residence, license number and the name of the owner of the motor vehicle to any person who is injured or whose property is damaged and to any enforcement officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keiser“it can not be said that he was not required to stop even though it should subsequently develop that no assistance could be rendered”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sebben“where several distinct acts are required the omission of any one or more of them constitutes a violation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sebben
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.